A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations / Consisting of Choice Passages from the Sacred Poetry of All Ages and Countries, Classified and Arranged, for Facility of Reference, Under Subject Headings; Illustrated by Striking Passages from Scripture, and Forming Altogether a Complete Book of Devotional Poetry.

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Thus still, where’er the good and just

Close the dim eye on life and pain,

Heaven watches o’er their sleeping dust,

Till the pure spirit comes again.

W. C. Bryant.

MOTHER.

He maketh the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of children. Praise ye the Lord.—Psalm cxiii. 9.

Despise not thy mother when she is old.—Proverbs, xxiii. 22.

Now there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene.